“Remember that time you made the wish? I make a lot of wishes.The time I lied to youabout the butterfly. I always wonderedwhat you wished for. What do you think I wished for?I don’t know. That I’d come back,that we’d somehow be together in the end. I wished for what I always wish for. I wished for another poem.”

“The whole world gets turned upside down by the wish for riches and power. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. If wishes were soldiers, then weak men would rule. And if wishes were elixirs, then all men would live forever.”

“Be careful what you wish for,” said Groanin. “Not because you’ll get it, but because you’re doomed not to want it very much when you do.”

“Si quieres que tus deseos duren, tienes que pedir algo que te haga feliz y no la felicidad.”

“The cake had a trick candle that wouldn’t go out, so I didn’t get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.”

“Hopes, wants and wishes, all cast across the night sky with my heart in tow.”

“These… things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world:Long life is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world.Beauty is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world.Happiness is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world.Status is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world….Now, I tell you, these… things are not to be obtained by reason of prayers or wishes. If they were to be obtained by reason of prayers or wishes, who here would lack them? It’s not fitting for the disciple of the noble ones who desires long life to pray for it or to delight in doing so. Instead, the disciple of the noble ones who desires long life should follow the path of practice leading to long life. In so doing, he will attain long life…[Ittha Sutta, AN 5.43]”

“Lots of men think that women should tell the truth, explain their feelings. These men should use their wishes more wisely. (Prepare To Die!, p.27)”

“Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.”

“إن بيننا وبين الله رابطة لا تنفصم، فإذا نحن أخضعنا أنفسنا لإشرافه – سبحانه وتعالى – تحققت أمنياتنا وآمالنا كلها.”

“But time given to wishing for what can’t be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable.”

“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”

“I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.But I didn’t really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.”